Comments on: Industry Scuttlebutt

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:53:00 +0000

I think he’s been getting a touch of the herb himself…

By: The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:01:38 +0000

I think marijuana grinders and paraphernalia are a tough call. It is legal merchandise even if the ultimate usage is questionable. Cigarette machinery would pass my distaste quotient so I would make the stuff. Military parts for Iran would be unacceptable. French fry makers for McDonalds — no way.

By: lloyd

lloyd — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:29:31 +0000

It’s nice to feel the love.

By: Tim Breen

Tim Breen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:32:29 +0000

Stop sending me the Obama propaganda, and these stupid emails, ah what am I saying, you retards don’t even read them.Lloyd, you may have not started speaking until the age of age 3, when are you going to start thinking? Oh how I miss Don Wood.

Lee Machine

By: Steven Horn

Steven Horn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:03:04 +0000

Of course I’d run a part for cigarette mfg., Cats or Guns. My job is to machine not to worry about what someone will do with my product. Years ago we made the tap for Beer Kegs. My father never drank, but he didn’t care if someone else did so he made the parts. Run the job and make some money that’s what I’m in business to do.

The big question is would you allow President Obama in your shop for a photo op. When he has been systematically destroying this economy. That I don’t think I’d do. Watch what he does not what he says. How’s that “Hope & Change” working for you!

By: John Petro

John Petro — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:13:42 +0000

In 1990 I had an old friend call me asking for some work for a new Swiss shop he was starting up. I asked him to come in and I offered him some gun parts that would have been nice runs on an old Tornos M7. He refused the work on moral grounds and needless to say I offered him nothing more. I saw him recently and inquired how he was doing. He complained that he was out of work, nobody is hiring for the cam machines anymore. Is there a moral to this story?

By: Noah Graff

Noah Graff — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:09:10 +0000

That’s very true Jon. Nice way to address today’s other blog too. I’m a big fan of the stock guru Jim Cramer of Mad Money. He once brought up this story when he was talking about the subject investing in controversial companies like Philip Morris.

He said one time, Al Gore asked him to put together a portfolio of stocks that were the “goody two shoes” of companies. Corporations that didn’t have any bad practices for the environment or society or whomever. He said that no matter how hard they looked, every company always had something they did wrong.

So he says, invest in something you can make money in, and give half your profits to the Cancer Society if it makes you feel good.